No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[Mike S]

On 13/08/2016 at 12:39, Davros sock drawer said:

 

Glad you don't hate it at least! I might be wrong, but I suspect that once you get into space you may find it harder to stop playing than you think.

 

Don't worry too much about discarding common materials. Once you know what to look for you can quickly mine what you need on the fly.

 

As an aside, I've seen a lot of grumbles about the price. Personally I'd rather pay more to support a quirky but flawed game which is giving me an experience I've craved since I was 10, than many other AAA titles. And I would add that they've said that any future content will be free.

 

By the way, be interested to see pix of your starting planet.

 

 

I've been wandering around my starter planet for four of five hours now, bar a quick trip into low orbit just to see how the world looked from up there. I know it's time to move on but every time I think of pointing the spaceship upwards I go for another walk and find another little building, or a monoloith, or some of those knowledge things and that is keeping me tired to the surface. It's quite a barren planet compared to some I've seen but I did find an area that was unusually rich in fauna, including some circling vultures that were a bitch to scan. I am up to around a dozen species found now, all of which seem pretty relaxed about me chasing them around before feeding them a sweet lump of carbon or iron..

 

I have also spent twenty minutes loitering at a six pad space port eyeing up spaceships that were coming and going but after getting vbery close to committing 350,000 credits on a fancy looking one decided to back out in order to continue resuming skid kicking.

 

I need to leave this world soon though but there is always one more hill to go peek over...

 

I'll post some pics in the starter planet pics thread.

[Cosmic_Guru]

5 hours ago, Sng said:

I'm really struggling with inventory. I've upgraded my suit by two and have the same ship as I started with. Not seen the option to buy a new one yet? Not that it matters, I only have around 200,000 credits. 

 

So how do I deal with the small pockets? I'm guessing I'm doing it wrong. Should I just be mining stuff I need at that point? That an any extremely rare stuff. I pick up iron and carbon cos I need it for life support and mining. Is that wasted space? Should I just mine it last mini when I need it?

 

Think of your ship as bulk store-age facility of low value but high volume items which you will always need - Plutonium, Iron, Zinc or Titanium (for shield regen) are three which come to mind, and use the remainder for other metals you come across in large quantities as you travel around (each slot holds 500).  Use the suit for anything else (each stack only holds up to 250) but seek to offload all the green trade items asap even if the price received is not the best.  These don't stack, so shift 'em pronto.  Bear in mind you don't always have access to your ship's inventory at sales terminals - another reason to try to differentiate between stuff for future use and disposable items.

 

But yes, you need to buy more slots, particularly since you will need to use 8 or so for enhancement mods rather than inventory.

[Quest]

Today's travels:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Davros sock drawer]

That last pic in particular is awesome!

[Mike S]

22 minutes ago, feltmonkey said:

I don't know whether to buy this on PC or PS4.  I'd be able to run it on medium quality on my PC.  I do have a nice hotas stick for the PC, but I'm not sure if I could use it.  The game does seem to be perfect for reclining on a sofa while playing though which is a plus point for PS4.  I can hook my PC up to the TV fairly easily, but I'd have to use an xbox controller. The PS4 version is £10 more expensive.

 

Given all these variables, I'm paralysed and unable to choose.  What do you guys reckon?

 

 

It's higher res and smoother on PC if that matters to you and it plays very well with an xbox one pad. I imagine there would be little benefit in using a HOTAS stick, assuming it works at all, as the spacecraft handling is quite basic.

 

I have no tech issues with the PC since removing the 30fps cap that is somewhat bizarrely enabled by default and I think that has been the case for many folk (although I understand there are more issues with ATI GPU's). I have also never experienced any of the hard crashes I've seen mentioned by PS4 players but then I've only played for four or five hours.

[HarryBizzle]

36 minutes ago, U-1 said:

 

Thats my next objective.. I'm tired of running scared from those bastards. Time to man up.

 

The mining laser has a large degree of lock on so it makes life much easier than the wimpy photon cannon thing.

[pulsemyne]

42 minutes ago, Gorf King said:

 

Have you seen the PC tech thread? PS4, I'd say. It's a game made for a pad, not a stick, technical niggles aside.

Nah mouse and Keyboard is great.

[Gorf King]

Ok. But the game was designed in the first instance for pad control, and the guy I was answering wants to play it on the sofa, and on a TV, and was talking about using a stick, not m&kb. So maybe not an entirely relevant response there.

[Thread Astaire]

I might have to double dip on this for PC....gaahhhh.

[Cosmic_Guru]

I'm on an excellent and challenging planet - extreme radiation toxin which constantly chews through my zinc, but otherwise easy to access supplies of high value purple goop from some weird critter with absolutely no sentinel interference ............the only other downside being the hordes of killer crabs which pack a surprising punch.

 

Also, it has slab Nickel which is on my shopping list at present.

 

[Gorf King]

I found it!

 

The motherfucking Tenth Species! The little twat was hidden down in the depths of some lake, a metre-long shrimp thing with a pulsating blancmange mould for a head. I can finally leave this god-forsaken temperate friendly mineral-rich planet and head off into the depths of unwelcoming space!

 

Lanciamen Rehenraym, I could kiss your bulbous, stalked-eyed head.

 

Edit: Except it’s now doing that thing again where it won’t let me upload the 100% for the cash or the milestone. Oh... Hello Games, I think... I might actually have to stop playing for a while and go and kick something.

[Dimahoo]

1 hour ago, Sng said:

I'm really struggling with inventory. I've upgraded my suit by two and have the same ship as I started with. Not seen the option to buy a new one yet? Not that it matters, I only have around 200,000 credits. 

 

So how do I deal with the small pockets? I'm guessing I'm doing it wrong. Should I just be mining stuff I need at that point? That an any extremely rare stuff. I pick up iron and carbon cos I need it for life support and mining. Is that wasted space? Should I just mine it last mini when I need it?

 

You can buy a new ship at a Space station or a planetside colonial base - when another ship lands just go to its front and you can buy it during barter.

Ensure you carry your shit over else you could end up stuck (or having to recraft stuff).

[zxcvbnm]

Thanks to the trading folder, I've picked this up for less than £40, so I'll be joining you all on a space adventure soon. Trying not to read too much about the game song font spoil it for myself 

[Superunknown]

Early question about the Atlas path following a few warps and encountering *something*:

I'm on the Atlas path and have found my first anomaly. I chose to remain on the Atlas path when I spoke with the Korvax, and then crafted an Atlas Pass.  Afterward I encountered another Atlas via a Monolith. Now my star chart navigation is defaulting to a new third navigation option (blue line) that shows another anomaly a few systems away, although I can change the navigation option back to the (orange) Atlas path.

 

Is this additional anomaly just random, or is it part of another path in it's own right?

[macosx]

Well a mixed bag of travels today:

 

The Lows

Had almost filled twelve slots full of Iridium harvested from a huge tower of it sandwiched between two slabs of rock, when I stepped into the base I'd cut out the bottom and fell out of the map. Spent 20 mins trying to get back. Finally cut myself out of the bottom of a stack of gold to get back above the ground. All iridium lost.

 

Also crashed going through a black hole

 

The Highs

Doing a Gorf and making 2 million farming pearls in caves. Bought a load of slots and fitted radiation and thermal protection. Plus bought a new ride with a warp drive for longer trips.

 

 

[Floyd]

Alright, I'm just about ready for another patch. Having real trouble with a few things, especially loading into the game ,crashing a A LOT

[HarryBizzle]

So I got a bit bored of looking at every single planet I came across, and convinced myself that it was alright, after all you can't be stopping at every single planet on your interstellar journey or you'd never get anywhere (you really need to be able to scan planets from orbit). So I built a few Pulse cores or whatever and system hopped to first Atlas whatever system.

 

As I hopped out of warp in one of the systems on the way I was greeted by a space battle:

 

 

Really cool. Of course, rather than joining in I turned around and went the other way. 

 

 

Anyway, I've got an Atlas Pass now. Spoiler for others who have one:

 

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What a disappointment, eh? You open the door on a space station and find practically nothing and then two more doors which require higher levels of passes!

 

[Flub]

My current red sun system has one planet with low security, sac venom and nickel. Another planet with low security and vortex cubes and a third extreme cold planet with aluminium and radnox that literally floats in the sky as jellyfish creatures

 

I am so going to get jumped on my way back to the station

[Monkeyspill]

If you ever come across Lagavulin 8, do not land! It will only lead to tears. I managed to escape in the end, but it's full of bastard level sentinels that attack on sight and loads of tiny indestructible crabs that also attack on sight. 

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Great fun with my local Wildlife!

 

[Clipper]

25 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

Anyway, I've got an Atlas Pass now. Spoiler for others who have one:

 

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What a disappointment, eh? You open the door on a space station and find practically nothing and then two more doors which require higher levels of passes!

 

It has been a guaranteed way to get suits lots for me , every space station so far has one behind the atlas pass v1 door

[HarryBizzle]

25 minutes ago, Clipper said:

 

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It has been a guaranteed way to get suits lots for me , every space station so far has one behind the atlas pass v1 door
 

 

 

 

Ah that's interesting. This one did too but I'm at the point where it's prohibitively expensive. 

[Sabreman]

I've gotten myself into the situation of trying to find the last species on a planet 

[pulsemyne]

1 hour ago, Gorf King said:

Ok. But the game was designed in the first instance for pad control, and the guy I was answering wants to play it on the sofa, and on a TV, and was talking about using a stick, not m&kb. So maybe not an entirely relevant response there.

You know me. Nothing I say is ever relevant.

[Gorf King]

30 minutes ago, Sabreman said:

I've gotten myself into the situation of trying to find the last species on a planet 

 

 

I've moved on now, but you now what? I wish I hadn't bothered leaving Cayde-9. Jumped back to the furthest system I got to before I backtracked for the 100% that I got then never got, in order to continue the line to... something. Landed on a planet with extreme toxicity. Great! Nice change! It's bound to have loads of exotic stuff though. So I crafted a couple of anti-toxin modules, and headed out. They were wearing down quite quickly, given how much fuel they took - fuel I was running short of. But I'd make it to that cave over there before they did...

 

Then the extreme storm hit. Fuck me, I thought Extreme Toxicity was toxic, but the Extreme Toxicity Storm took the piss, toxicity-wise. I was toast, so I quickly fired a few plasma grenades into the cursed earth and dived in for cover. A mere ten minutes later, the storm passed, and I managed to get back to the ship and use its last supplies to put my barriers straight for another cave run.

 

The caves were massive. Absolutely huge. And... empty of everything but plutonium and iron, with the odd smudge of carbon from the plant life warped enough to try to live there. What a fucking shithole of a planet. Oh Cayde-9, why did I not realise I'd found paradise when I stumbled upon you! 

 

Of all the lifeforms I scanned, this was the cutest, most welcoming one:

 

 

Aww... a fucking Jabberwock. Fuck the fuck off. I'm out of here and off to the next system as soon as the storm passes. 

 

On the other hand, there are twelve distinct animal species on this rock, and I've already scanned six of them after half an hour, so...

[Nicky]

i take it you guys all know about the forward boost jump move?   try pressing the shoulder charge button just before holding the jetpack. so on a 360pad, its right bumper and A. if you do it right you'll go flying forward.

 

please ignore me if this is common knowledge!

[Flub]

I'm sat in the station waiting for a 36 slot ship to arrive that I can buy. I already have my eye on the upgrade after that to 42 slots.

 

Just missed out on a 37 slotter by less than a million. Curses

[Tailfly]

27 minutes ago, Nicky said:

i take it you guys all know about the forward boost jump move?   try pressing the shoulder charge button just before holding the jetpack. so on a 360pad, its right bumper and A. if you do it right you'll go flying forward.

 

please ignore me if this is common knowledge!

 

Well worth repeating often as it is a HUGE time saver, i use it all the time now.

 

15 minutes ago, Flub said:

I'm sat in the station waiting for a 36 slot ship to arrive that I can buy. I already have my eye on the upgrade after that to 42 slots.

 

Just missed out on a 37 slotter by less than a million. Curses

 

Really!? How much are they coming up for? on mine they're around the 16-20 million range and that is WAY too much for me too afford.

[Flub]

I'm farming sac venoms. A 37 slotters was just over 18 mil. 43 was something like 36. I plan to stay here a good long while. (37 slots in my exo suit). Selling sac venoms for 27k each. 4 seconds pulse jump from the planet.

 

I have 19 million now. Time to wait.

[macosx]

Nice Gundam looking ship from Reddit